The New York Times Has Lost a Lot of Big Names This Year

With the news this morning of two star reporters leaving the New York Times, it can’t help but feel like a mini-exodus is taking place. (In addition to Brian Stelter and Matt Bai, New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren is reportedly on his way out, and it’s onlyTuesday.)

Once upon a time, a job at the Times was like a life appointment, and leaving the comforts of the tower was considered absurd. But, perhaps owing to a combination of staff cutbacks, changes in management, and ever-increasing numbers of new-media companies with money to throw around, both on the web and in television, the Paper of Record’s brand-name employees are more in play than they’ve everbeen.

Since voluntary buyouts at the start of 2013, which stripped the Times of some institutional wisdom — the departed included editors John Geddes, Jonathan Landman, Jim Roberts, Joe Sexton, and more — more than a dozen other big names have moved on. Below, a list; let us know if we missedanyone.